Inorganic and Applied Chemistry

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Inorganic and Applied Chemistry

5.6 Titrations and pH curves

Titrations are often used to analyse the amount of acid and base in a solution. The principle is to

continuously add a solution with known concentration to the solution with unknown concentration. The

addition is done from a burette in such way that the amount of added volume may be written off afterwards.

The point of equivalence is often signalised by a color shift from an indicator added prior to the titration. The

process of titration is often depicted by plotting the pH of the unknown solution as a function of the added

amount of solution with the known concentration. Calculations of pH for given amounts of solution with the

known concentration is done analogously to pH calculations exemplified in earlier sections.

Acids and bases